We Are Family

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A thread from yesterday that should have its own post:

How much has your family influenced your listening habits? Are you an older/younger/middle sibling, or an only child? Are your musical tastes anything like your parents'?

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Parents: met in Cambridge in the 60s, went to parties "where Pink Floyd played" (the thought of Dad getting down to Astronomy Domine boggles me) but basically didn't like music that much. They each had a couple of inescapable 60s records - Dylan G Hits, Sgt Pepper - and my Dad had a few he'd borrowed off his cooler younger brother Bill, who really did go to rock star parties and died in a car crash age 22.

Dad had a box of Bill's old tapes - Beefheart, Hendrix, later Dylan, Exile On Main Street which wd have come out the year he died I guess - and gave them to me when I was 18, he'd never really wanted to play them. I got more into Dylan, the rest passed me by.

By the time I got into music myself, Mum liked classical, Dad liked light classics and country (mostly wronged countrypolitan women - Dolly, Tammy). He also liked the TV series "Rock Bottom", enough to buy the album, and a few ABBA songs, and "Annie's Song" - those are the only pop I remember being played in the house when I was very small.

Brother: I'm an older brother and I think I had more influence on Al's taste than he did on mine - I got him into the stuff I was enthused about, pop and Smiths-y indie and house and rave music. He had a big soul and funk phase in his early 20s, too. The stuff he likes now seems to be more wordy, cabaret almost, we still hate all the same things though.